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very liable from constant exposure to the weather; and 
among the Anstraliaos, huming the skin with lighted 
sticks is a common mode of displaying grief o^ the 
death of a chief or relative. From a number of inqui- 
ries the writer has made among Papuans who were 
marked with the raised cicatrices, he has been led to the 
conclusion that those on the arm and breast, which are 
the largest and most prominent, were made in order to 
qualify them for admission to the privileges of manhood, 
by showing their capability of bearing pain. 
In addition to the tattooed figures of crossed swords 
and kriss-blades with which the skins of the men are 
marked, the chief omaTnents of the Dory natives consist 
in armlets of fish-bone, strings of shells, copper or silver 
wire, and sometimes of rattan or pandanus-leaf plaited into 
bands about two inches wide. A similar band is also 
worn to protect the wrist from the recoil of the bow- 
strings which might otherwise inflict considerable injury. 
HUSTISG WILD HOGS. 
